• Understand what multi academy trust boards and leaders should expect from each other
• Understand the importance of developing relationships based on trust and respective
• Ensure your governance is ethical, effective and accountable
• Questions and answers

• Understand the impact of headteachers on school performance and workforce dynamics
• Discuss the impact of headteacher gender and ethnicity on school demographics and attainment of specific student groups
• Explore policy recommendations from the Education Policy Institute for enhancing school leadership
• Questions and answers

A future-facing school has a complex fusion of physical and digital resources, integrating emerging technologies and innovative pedagogical approaches, yet it has the same ambitions as every other school: helping our young people secure their future. In this session, you will:

• Discover how the iPad lets us forge a new relationship with technology, ensuring that it becomes our ally in connecting authentically to learning experiences and each other
• Explore how every part of its ecosystem emboldens our critical decisions around the strategic integration of technology
• You’ll hear about genuine transformation in schools, for teachers, students and the wider community and find out how you can take your schools on that journey, too
• Questions and answers

• Discuss the importance of company culture and the impact culture has on staff output and pupil outcomes
• The role of leadership in shaping and sustaining a positive culture
• Explore the steps taken by Excelsior Multi Academy Trust to evaluate and redesign its culture
• Questions and answers

• Explore international research on operational excellence in schools and academies
• Understand the conditions for success
• Discuss how schools and academies can run effectively and efficiently to achieve better outcomes
• Questions and answers

For the first time, including insight into Gender Identity from children and young adults in education & care settings

• Sadie Besley, Divisional Managing Director (Professional Public Services)
• Karen Guthrie, Operations Director (Education and Student Support)
• Hazel Baxter, Client Solutions Director (Education and Student Support)

From developing a clear vision of what a brand new school will be like, to choosing your technology and partners wisely and identifying the key skills and knowledge you want to teach, how then do you decide what to prioritise and what to upskill newly appointed teachers with first, so they have the confidence and skills to deliver your vision to competently develop the next generation of digitally ‘smart creatives’ so pupils thrive and are successful learners?

• What do we deem success to look like?
• Discuss the common challenges experienced by The Learning Partnership and how they overcame those challenges
• Questions and answers

• Discuss how educational leaders can stay responsive to the changing needs of students, teachers, and communities in an increasingly dynamic educational environment
• Debated strategies for tackling teacher retention and recruitment
• Explore strategies for promoting inclusivity and equity within school leadership, ensuring that every student has access to quality education regardless of background or circumstance
• Address concerns related to part-time working rights and managing staff absenteeism
• Questions and answers

Stephen Morales Chief Executive, Institute of School Business Leadership (ISBL)

Emma Knights OBE, Co-chief Executive, National Governance Association

Deborah Robinson, Professor of Special Educational Needs, Disability (SEND) and Inclusion in the Institute of Education, University of Derby

*programme subject to change without notice